are everything in the Bronx; they're hard to ignore when the club's history and current spending produce and project them so high.

They're more difficult to forgo because last season's 85-77 record left the team short of the postseason and sent them into the biggest reactionary frenzy since the winter that mended and retooled the 2008 debacle into the 2009 World Series champions.

And now, following a successful spring training, what had been on-paper, calculated, anxious anticipation has become justified, high expectation for the regular season. The refashioned yet untested 2014 Yankees resemble a more cohesive, well-rounded and productive team than anyone may have predicted a month ago.